badjak
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Do those start out as little orange ones?
They do look a lot like the ones I got esp in my lime trees
Little green caterpillars in vegetables. Are they just a fact of life?
They do look a lot like the ones I got esp in my lime trees
badjak
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If you want to have some fun:
google caterpillars of southern africa facebook
This is my favourite
(screenshot of that site)
google caterpillars of southern africa facebook
This is my favourite
(screenshot of that site)
badjak
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sorry for the triple picture.
It's my internet playing up and I can't seem to edit.
But it's a cute little caterpillar so I hope you don't mind
It's my internet playing up and I can't seem to edit.
But it's a cute little caterpillar so I hope you don't mind
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About 75mm (3") long I believe that one was.
I removed them for you.sorry for the triple picture.
It's my internet playing up and I can't seem to edit.
But it's a cute little caterpillar so I hope you don't mind
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Anything from a cm up to 4 or 5cm. The largest are not far off the size of my little finger and about half a thick, but that's rare because I try to have a caterpillar harvest every week through summer.
They're just standard cabbage white caterpillars which is why my chooks are happy to eat them. The caterpillars we get on the grapevines, my chooks won't touch.
These blighters were about 2-3 inches long. I picked them off the tomato plants with a pair of chopsticks, since in the past, I've picked them off with my fingers and got burned/poisoned/stung/whatever. They went through some mature tomato plants in a day.
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Came here to make that comment, and not disappointed someone beat me to it
If you want to have some fun:
google caterpillars of southern africa facebook
This is my favourite
(screenshot of that site)
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That is the strangest (and one of the most beautiful) caterpillars I've ever seen. What kind of butterfly or moth does it become?
badjak
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I have no idea!
I just know I had to laugh out loud when I saw that picture.
I'll try to find out
I just know I had to laugh out loud when I saw that picture.
I'll try to find out
Apparently its a saddleback caterepillar. It seems its native to North America and Mexico (no mention of SA, oddly). Disappointingly, it turns into a rather dull brown moth!